22 February 606 A.D. Sabianus Dies—Rome’s 65th; Nuncio to Constantinople; Lombards; Salesman of Food; Restores Secular Clerks Removed by Gregory I
22
February 606 A.D. Sabianus
Dies—Rome’s 65th; Nuncio to
Constantinople; Lombards; Salesman of Food; Restores Secular Clerks Removed by
Gregory I
Pope Sabinianus
Sources
Mann, Horace. "Pope
Sabinianus." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton
Company, 1912.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13291a.htm. Accessed 12 Jul 2014.
Pope Sabinianus
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The date of his birth is unknown, but he was consecrated pope probably
13 Sept., 604, and died 22 Feb., 606. The son of Bonus, he was born at Blera (Bieda) near Viterbo. In 593 he was sent by St. Gregory I as apocrisiarius or Apostolic nuncio to Constantinople; but in some respects
his administration of the office did not come up to Gregory's expectations.
He was not astute enough for the rulers of Byzantium.
He returned toRome in 597, and was chosen
to succeed Gregory soon
after the death of that great pontiff;
but as the imperial confirmation of his election did not arrive for some months, he
was not consecrated till
September. The difficulties of his pontificate were caused by
fear of the Lombards and by
famine. When the Lombard danger
had passed, Sabinianus opened
the granaries of the Church, and sold corn to the people at one solidus
(twelve shillings) for thirty pecks.
Because he was unable or unwilling to allow the people to have the corn for
little or nothing, there grew up in later times a number of idle legends in which his predecessor was
represented punishing him for avarice. He is reputed to have restored to the secular clergy posts
which St. Gregory had
filled with monks. He was buried in St. Peter's.
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Liber
Pontificalis, ed. DUCHESNE, I (Paris, 1886), 315; Epp. Gregorii; 1, ed. EWALD
(Berlin, 1891); MANN, Lives of the Popes in the early Middle Ages, I, 251 sq.
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